The Walkabout

NOTE:
This is the final post in my 3-part Valentines Day series. Read the First part and the Second part here.

I used to laugh whenever I read or heard that a certain celebutard had checked himself into a Sex Rehab facility. Tiger Woods, Eric Benét, Charlie Sheen… and the list goes on.
As I grew up and [...]

“We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason
All of us, each one of us was brought here for a reason
…It may be hard for the others to accept
But everything happens for a reason.”
- John Locke (LOST s05e07 – The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham)
Note:
All this week, posts on The Walkabout focus on [...]

With every passing day, we get to meet new people. Hopefully, we learn new things too.
Lately, I’ve had a chance to make new friends, people that I believe will leave some mark on the pages of my life. And some of the marks will be indelible, for that is the way it is sometimes.
Jonathan Haidt [...]

Inspired Reading
This comeback post has been inspired by  a blog post by a friend  on Purpose, and by a Goals Report by Brian Tracy that I recently read.

Peter’s Walkabout
On March 10 2009, Peter’s Walkabout was launched. From the very first post, we sought to identify, share and benefit from whatever lessons life throws at us [...]

IDEAS WORTH SHARING
Every once in a while, we all experience something so wonderful that it becomes really hard not to share.
Well, for a while, I have been reading a most wonderful document. Yeah, it is really short (only 23 pages). It’s quite a deep piece, trust you me.
It is a report by Foundation for Entrepreneurial [...]

The year was 1996. I was in High School. All was not well. I had quite many problems and was nearly depressed. I’ll spare you the poignant details, let’s just say it was really bad at the time.
But then I shared. And a friend wrote me the note below, that did wonders and totally changed [...]

Don’t Eat the Marshmallow, yet.
This is a short talk Dr Joachim De Posada gave at the 2009  TED U conference. He underscores the essence of delaying gratification and having self control, character traits which should be grained from an early stage in child development.

In fact, this character trait can be used to predict future success [...]

The following poem is a lovely reminder of just how awesome we are indeed.
Yeah, we are special.

Be edified:
SPECIAL
There is a special place in life that needs my humble skill
a certain job I’m meant to do, nobody else can fill
The hours are demanding and the pay is not too good
and yet I wouldn’t change it for [...]

“We are each the authors of our own lives…
there is no way to shift the blame,
and no one else to accept the accolades.”
- Paul McGill (in A Woman of Substance)

Pathology
Late last year, I watched the movie Pathology. It is a sick thriller in which a group of residents studying pathology devise a lively game: to [...]

“Hope is the bridge that connects you to where you want to go
Faith assures you that the bridge will hold
Love gives you a reason to cross it.”

Looking back at the days I was in college, I realize that life at the time accorded us many luxuries we cannot have in adult life.
Consider communication and friends. [...]